Milan's Salone del Mobile

摘要

Too big. Too frequent. Too spread-out. Those are some of the complaints heard again and again about Milan's over-the-top furniture fair, which consumes Italy's second-largest city for one week every April. Yet design aficionados keep flocking to the annual event in ever-larger numbers. The 53rd edition of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile attracted more than 357,000 visitors, up 13 percent from last year.